iPods and Vocabulary

Yep, it's Techno Tuesday, which means I go practical (far different from my last post, a podcast about why every system is broken). The following is a vocabulary exercise that worked well for me:

Apps Used:
Camera
Comic Touch Lite

Beginner: Vocabulary Slideshow
Students create a vocabulary slideshow using Comic Touch Lite.
Step One: Students draw a picture for each word.
Step Two: Students take a picture of each picture using the Camera app on the iPods.
Step Three: Students add each picture to Comic Touch Lite. (They import from the library)
Step Four: Students add one caption for the word and another caption for a definition in their own words.
Step Five: Students add a thought bubble, exclamation or dialogue box. This can be a great chance to use the word in a different verb tense ("It was scattered" versus "I am scattering these papers.") and thus practice using the verb tenses and following the rules of grammar.

Advanced: Multimedia Comic Book
Students draw the pictures and then develop their own multimedia comic book with all of the vocabulary words being used in context. They still follow the same procedure with regards to the dialogue, but the captions would relate to the story. When they are finished, they can annotate the story verbally using (program). In this option, the students get a chance to practice adding prefixes and suffixes, changing verbs to nouns, using root words and changing verb tenses within a more meaningful context.